Tossing your cookies is vomiting, to the best of my knowledge. Glad I could be of service. Robert Morris winboog@gis.net now playing-electric fan ---------- > From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> > To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu > Subject: Cookies > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:19 PM > > This is a kind of stupid `I-have-a-bet-with-this-friend-of-mine' (my > boyfriend actually) question. I mentioned that the cab we got in the other > day smelt like someone had tossed his cookies in it - yes, an unashamed > steal from TCIR - but he looked at me kind of strangely. I always thought > that tossing one's cookies referred to throwing up (and was a really nice > epithet for it), whereas he maintains that it's something quite different > ... how shall I put this - involving quite another bodily compulsion. Can > anyone help me out here? Who's right? (we Australians have similar > confusions on the exact nature of these cooties we're always hearing about) > > Camille > verona_beach@geocities.com > @ THE ARTS HOLE > www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 > THE INVERTED FOREST > www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest